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telephoned her father asking him to
withdraw. the warrants, hut he said
it was too late, the matter was out
of his hands.
Diggs seems to .have been the
prime mover in the case and Camin
etti a weak second, though Diggs'
attorney will try to shift the blame
to Caminetti.
It was Diggs who told the girls to
say that the men had occupied one
bedroom and the girls another, and
it was Diggs who placed the entire
responsibility of their freedom or a
penitentiary sentence on the shoul
ders of the girls.
If Marsha Warrington and the Nor-
ns gin were sucn willing victims as
Diggs and Caminetti are trying to
prove, it seems odd that Dices
should have shown so much nervous
ness about the story the girls would
teh
Miss Warringtonand Miss Norris
were practically prisoners in the
bungalow in Reno. They were not
allowed to go out of the house lest
they should be recognized. They
were not permitted to mail the let
ters to their parents. They wanted
to go back to Sacramento, but the
two men,,grown cowards and fearful
of detection, refused this, too, lest
their whereabouts should be re
vealed. The spell of infatuation that
bound Marsha Warrington to Diggs is
broken. Her evidence, no, matter
how it is riddled, is forging a chain
about him that he will find it hard
to break and he is fighting with his
back to the wall.
All attempts to get her to. admit
any liaison with any other man than
Diggs has failed. She' denied that
she had ever had improper relations
with anyone else, although she freely
told of visits She and Diggs and Miss
Norris and Caminetti had made to
roadhouses and of having spent
nights in various hotels in San
Francisco, San Jose, Stockton and
other California cities.
Diggs .continued to watch the girl
narrowly during her cross-examini
tion, but she was heavily veiled and
if his gaze disconcerted her, it was
not apparent in her demeanor.
The defense attempted to show
Mies Warrington was familiar with
San Francisco's night life, naming
Albert Putnam In connection with a
trip here. The court squelched the
defense, saying;
"The relations of the witness with
other men do not enter the case."
The Judge then significantly asked
the jurymen If any of them had talk
ed to Diggs and Caminetti. There
was a chorus of scattering noes.
"I ask you now," said the judgej
"because it is not serious now, as it
may be later."
o o
ASPHALT LAKE STILL TAKING IN
HEAVY DEATH TOLL
For unnumbered years the asphalt
lake of Rancho la Brea, California,
has been swallowing up an endless
procession of victims. It is surely
the most awful death-trap In the
world.
The shores of the lake are of semi
fluid asphalt, forming the asphalt of
commerce Camels, deer, and ani
mals long since extinct came down
to the lake to drink. Before the sense
of danger had arisen they were hope
lessly "bogged," and, thus entrapped,
formed a bait for hosts of leopards
and other great cats, including sabre
toothed tigers and wolves innumer
able. These, too, were speedily trap
ped. As they lay slowly sinking,
flocks of eagles and vultures gathered
to feast Flapping their wings to
maintain a hold on their prey, sooner
or later the tips thereof got weighted
with this diabolical mud, and they,
too, were evolved in the general ruin.
But the toll of death is still being
levied and It will only end with the
end of the lake; and of that there
seems no likelihood.
Tammany has already gone to
slandering Fusion Nominee MitchelL
Says he Is the Hearst candidate.